What Groupon Will Do With That $950 Million

Already the global group-buying leader and growing much faster than its competitors, Groupon is getting a lot more funding. For what? For world domination, of course. . .and here’s how Groupon is likely to put that new-found ca…

Sears Launches Movie Downloading Service

Sears Holdings has become the latest retailer to launch an online movie-download service. The owner of Sears and Kmart is using the same delivery platform as Best Buy, Sonic Solutions’s RoxioNow. Will Sears’s new service delive…

Amazon: Tablets Aren’t Kindle-Killers After All

It looks like Kindles can happily co-exist in households with tablet computers, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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The Early Line on Holiday Retail Sales: Up a Merry 5.5%

Shoppers did their part this holiday season, spending more on clothes, jewelry and luxury items than last year, according to new sales tallies from MasterCard SpendingPulse, which tracks purchases by credit card, cash and other…